01/04/2026
🪧 Join us TOMORROW to tell the Trump administration HANDS OFF VENEZUELA! Come early at 2pm for sign-making. 🪧 RSVP at https://bhamdsa.org/handsoffvenezuela/
The Birmingham Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Alabama 50501, Food Not Bombs Birmingham, the Birmingham branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and local solidarity organizations will gather at the Five Points South fountain on Sunday, January 4th at 3:00pm for a protest condemning the Trump administration’s illegal war in Venezuela, the bombings of the Venezuelan people, and the abduction of Venezuelan President Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores.
âť“ What is happening?
On the morning of January 3rd, the Trump administration bombed locations across the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and abducted Venezuelan President Maduro in a naked attempt at regime change. These attacks continue Trump’s illegal war on Venezuela, which began with bombings and seizures of Venezuelan vessels in the Caribbean for months. Trump’s war on Venezuela aims to control Venezuela’s oil resources through illegal military force and with the help of U.S. energy corporations.
The Trump administration claims these military actions, as well as extrajudicial and illegal bombings and seizures of boats in the Caribbean, are to fight “narco-terrorism” and stop drugs entering the U.S. But Trump and his regime officials have repeatedly emphasized that U.S. control of Venezuelan oil, as well as U.S. domination of Latin America as a whole, are their primary motivation.
🌹 We can fight back!
We call on all people of conscience in Alabama to speak out firmly against U.S. aggression and this illegal war in Venezuela, to join local demonstrations and organizations that are demanding an end to this violence, and to demand that Congressional representatives refuse to fund or support another illegal war for oil.